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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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Compassionate Path Sin
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
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Believe Community Expectation
Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.
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Food Himself Ourselves
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Religious Truth World
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Children Deep Moral
A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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Deep Faith Religion
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
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God Human Ideal Love Pain Reality World
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
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Act Worth
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?
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Appearance Myself Person Possible Recognition Serious Sin Worst
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
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Believe Character Himself
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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Learning Light People Suffering
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
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Break Death Defeat Human Life Light Morning Remember Rise Sin
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Direction Run Wrong Yourself
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Action Responsibility

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